ReCoUPS: Post-Concussion Patient Reports
- Conditions
- Brain ConcussionHead Injury
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Loss-based incentiveBehavioral: Flat-fee control status quo conditionBehavioral: Flat-Fitbit control status quo conditionBehavioral: Streak incentive
- Registration Number
- NCT04499937
- Lead Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Brief Summary
Physical and cognitive rest are recommended as treatment for concussion, but debate persists about the utility of this recommendation for patients recovering from concussion. In addition, patient adherence to physical and cognitive rest recommendations after concussion remains unknown. This study will measure and compare symptom and activity reports in the days and weeks after a concussion among patients randomly assigned to different incentive-based arms.
- Detailed Description
Although physical and cognitive rest are recommended as the hallmark treatment for concussion, debate persists about the utility of this recommendation for patients recovering from a concussion. In addition, patient adherence to physical and cognitive rest recommendations after concussion remains unknown. Objective and timely measures of physical and cognitive activity will aid in defining the relationship between physical and cognitive rest and clinical outcomes, such as symptom status, in the days and weeks after a concussion. Random assignment to incentive-based arms will be used to measure patient engagement with the study protocol and a dedicated research platform that involves ecological momentary assessment (EMA), in which participants report their real-time symptoms and daily activities in response to randomly timed prompts, will be used to help assess the rest and recovery process among pediatric and adult patients after concussion.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 30
- Males or females ages 13 to 64 years.
- Presents with head injury concerning for concussion in line with criteria specified in the most recent Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport, defined as head trauma with neurologic impairment, including, but not limited to somatic (eg, headache), cognitive (eg, feeling like in a fog) and/or emotional symptoms (eg, lability) symptoms.
- Within approximately 5 days of injury.
- Ownership of a smartphone to report symptoms and activities.
- Speak English.
- Informed consent or parental/guardian permission and child assent for those under 18 years of age.
- Parents/guardians or subjects who, in the opinion of the Investigator, may be non-compliant with study schedules or procedures.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Loss-based incentive Loss-based incentive Subjects start with the maximum possible compensation, but money is deducted for each missed response. Adult subjects will lose $4.76 for each missed survey. Child subjects will lose $0.79 for each missed survey. Flat-fee control status quo condition Flat-fee control status quo condition Subjects will receive the maximum possible compensation at the end of the study regardless of response rate. Flat-Fitbit control status quo condition Flat-Fitbit control status quo condition Subjects will be compensated by keeping the Fitbit at the end of the study regardless of response rate. Streak incentive Streak incentive Subjects start with no money in an account, but they earn a fixed amount with each response. In this arm, each adult report is worth $3.17 so an adult subject can earn up to $200 if he/she responds to all surveys. If an adult completes at least 75% of the reports, he/she will receive an $100 bonus for a total maximum of $300. In this arm, each child report is worth 0.52 cents so a child subject can earn up to $33 if he/she responds to all surveys. If a child completes at least 75% of the reports, he/she will receive a $17 bonus for a total maximum of $50.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Participant adherence to completing daily survey 21 days This is a study where each participant is sent a short survey (PCSI instrument) three times each day for 21 days. The participant is instructed to reply to each survey within several minutes of receiving the prompt. We are interested in the extent to which participants will adhere to this instruction. Therefore, the outcome of interest is whether or not the participant replied to a given survey prompt. When we evaluate patient adherence in the data, we do this by calculating the % of survey prompts to which a given participant responded. In sum, the outcome is adherence to the survey.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Time to recovery 1 to 21 days Assess and quantify the concussion recovery process by monitoring symptoms and cognitive and physical activity on a daily basis.
Test Way to Health platform 1-21 days Test Way to Health as a platform for efficiently randomizing and monitoring patients
Correlation between symptoms and cognitive activity 1-21 days Determine if there is a correlation each day between the daily symptom score from the PCSI (0-126) and the number of hours participants spent doing homework, napping, and using screens combined (cognitive activity).
Patient-reported activity vs. objective measures of activity 1-21 days Compare the patient-reported hours spent exercising on a given day to the patient's daily step count collected through Fitbit on that same day.
Correlation between symptoms and physical activity 1-21 days Determine if there is a correlation each day between the daily symptom score from the PCSI (0-126) and the number of hours spent exercising (physical activity).
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
🇺🇸Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The University of Pennsylvania
🇺🇸Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States